THINKING BODIES
Katažyna Jankovska
Floris Vanhoof’s Antenna: Snaps, Crackles, Hums, Noises, Bleeps, and Pulses
In this interview, Katažyna Jankovska talks with the artist Floris Vanhoof about the presence of electromagnetic waves, invisible phenomena, and his latest work, “Antenna,” which features a grand piano set on its side with a hexagonal antenna on top, presented at this year’s FIBER Festival.
About the author
Katažyna Jankovska is a writer, curator, and researcher from Lithuania, based in Rotterdam. Her scholarly and curatorial interests include critical posthumanism with a focus on art–science collaboration and artistic experiments. Driven by a curiosity to explore the social effects of technology and the human–machine relationship, she explores such topics as sensory ecology, interspecies communication, processes, and forces that often remain unseen, and our changing perception of the environment through the lens of technology.
ABOUT THINKING BODIES
Thinking Bodies was conceptualised as an effort to build an exploratory body of knowledge(s), that draws upon the festival’s theme and weaves together perspectives, writing styles and formats. Drawing from the theme of the FIBER Festival 2024 edition, Outer/Body, we invited aspiring and emerging writers from a multiplicity of backgrounds to share their contributions, ranging from essays to interviews to poetries, resulting in a rich archive of knowledge.